Automatic self-cleaning currycomb.



E. A. BOUGHAN. AUTOMATIC SELF CLEANING CUBRYCOMB. APPLICATION FILED JAN-4,19%.

1 1 8 1 ,500. Patented May 2, 1916.

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'E. A. BOUGHAN.

AUTOMATIC SELF CLEANING CURRYCOMB. APPLICATION FILED JAN-4.1915.

1,181,500. Patented May 2,1916.

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THE COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPH 50., WASHINGTON, D. C.

ELMER. A. oUGHJAN, or CANTON, ILLiNOIS.

AUTOMATIC SELF-CLEANING CURRYCOMB.

Application filed January 4, 1915.

T all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ELMER A. BOUGHAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Canton, in the county of Fulton and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Automatic Self-Cleaning Currycombs, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in curry combs of the class wherein provision is made for the cleaning of the teeth of accumulation of hair and dandruff, and the like, and has for one of its objects to improve the construction and increase the efliciency and utility of devices of this character.

Another object of the invention is to provide a simply constructed device which may be applied without material structural. change to curry combs of various makes and forms. b

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction as hereinafter shown and de scribed, and then specifically pointed out in th claims; and .in the drawings illustrative of the preferred embodiment of the invention, Figure 1 is a plan view of the improved device; Fig. 2 is a section on the line 22 of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3 3 of The body or back portion of the curry comb is represented conventionally at 1 0 and is provided with teeth members of the usual form, represented at 11. The members 11 are usually constructed from relatively thin plates of metal bent into U-shape and riveted to the under face of the back 10, as shown in Fig. 8, with the serrations or teeth 12 in the outer edges, the outwardly directed portions of the teeth members thus being spaced at uniform distances apart. The bracket 13 of the handle 14 is attached to the back 10 and is of the usual form. The device thus far described is the usual form of a conventional comb and in the improved device the back 10 is provided with hinge members 15 at one edge and with a recess 16 at the edge opposite to the hinge members, these being Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 2, 1916.

Serial No. 508.

the only changes required in the back of the curry comb. c

A cleaner plate, represented convention ally at 17, forms a part of the improved de vice andcorresponds in outline to the back 10 but is slightly larger than the same. The member 17 is provided with a plurality of longitudinal slots 18, one for each of the teeth members 11, as shown. Each of the slots is-preferably produced by forming a cleft through the member 17 at the points where the slots are to be located and with short transverse clefts at the terminals of the longer clefts, and the portions of the member thus released bent downwardly to form cleaning tongues which press against the opposite sides of the teeth members 11, as represented at 19 in Fig. 3. The member 17 is provided with hinge members 20 which coact with the hinge members 15 of the back 10 and receive a pintle rod 21. By this means, the member 17 is hingedly connected to the back 10. c

A loop 22 is connected to the member 17 and is adapted to engage in the recess 16 of the back 10 when the member 17 is disposed in parallel relation to the back 10, as shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3. Pivot ed at 23 to the back 10 is a locking member or lever 24L with one end turned laterally to extend through the loop 22, as shown at 25, and the other end extended beyond the rear edge of the members 1017 and widened to form a finger grip, as shown at 26. A spring, shown at 27 is connected to the member 24- and operates to maintain the terminal 25 yieldably engaging the loop 22 and thus lock the member 1.7 in position, in parallel relation to the back 10. A spring 28 surrounds the pintle 21 and operates to hold the member 17 away from the back 10 and thus cause the tongues 19 to automatically clear the teeth members 11 from the adhering hair or dan druif, and the like when required.

When the improved device is to be used, the member 17 is manually disposed in the position shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3 against the resistance of the spring 28 and the looking member 24 disposed through the loop 22 and thus locks the member 17 in operative position. The presence of the member 17 does not interfere in any way with the usual operation of the curry comb, as will be obvious, and, when the accumulation. of hair, dandruff and the like is to be removed, it is only necessary for the operator to slightly press against the portion 26 of the member 24 to withdraw the terminal 25 from .beneath the loop 22, when thespring 28 will immediately move the member 17 outwardly and cause the teeth or projectioiis 19 to, scrape the adhering. matter from the teeth.

The member 17 is then restored manually and thebrush is ready for operation;

The improved device is simple in construction, can be inexpensively manufac-f tured and applied without material alterations to curry combs of various forms and makes.

Having thus described the invention, What is claimed as new is 1. A curry comb includinga backmemiher, a tooth-cleaningmember pivotally" connected with theback member, a keeperse-f cured to the tooth cleanin'g member, means operating to hold'the tooth-cleaning member yieldably separated from said back mem ber,'and a'locking member mounted for piv-f otal movement in a horizontal pla'ne on the upper surface of the back member andhaving'one end thereof projectingbeyond the adjacent end of the backmember 'and its" other end movable into engagement with the keeper for holding the tooth-cleaning member in substantially parallel "relation to the back member.

2. A curry comb including'a back member, a tooth-cleaning member pivotally' con:

ing one end thereof curved laterally for engagement with the keeper and its other end extended beyond the adjacent end of 'the back member to form a handle, and a spring forming a connection between the'locking member and the back member. I 3. A curry comb including a backmemher, a tooth-cleaning member pivotally connected with the back member and having its free edge provided with a recess, a loop secured" to thetooth 'eleafii'rig member and adapted to extend through said recess, a

locking member pivotally mounted for pivotal movement in a horizontal plane on the upper surface of the back member'and hav ing one end"thereof curved laterally and adapted to engage the loop at the recess in the back member andits'other'end extended longitudinally "beyond the adjacent end of the back memberito form ahandle, and a spring having one end thereof connected with the back 'memberiand'its other end con:

nected with the locking member at a point between the pivot of said locking member and the free end of the handle.

4. A c'urry'comb including a back member; a tooth cleaning member, a rod form ingfa pivotal connectiojn between the back member and the tooth-cleanlng member, a spring surrounding the rod for holding the tooth-cleaning member yieldably separated fromthe back member, that edge of the back member opposite the pintle rod being formed with a recess, a loop secured to the tooth-cleaning member andadapted to seat in said recess, a locking member pivotally v V 1 r 5 mounted for movement in a'horizontal plane on the upper surface of the back member and having one end thereoff'curved laterally V and adaptedto engage :the loopat the recess in the back member and its other end extended longitudinallybeyond 'the adja cent end of the back member to form ahandle, and a spring liavin'g"one end thereof connected with the'back member and its other end connected with the lockingmem her at point between the'pivot "of locking member and the free end of the handle. I H A p In testimony whereof I my signature in presence of two witnesses." T

ELMER A. BQUGHAN. [1,. S. Witnesses:

D. ABBOTT, ALaER'r BLIQWET'T.

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